Comedy Quotes · Page 221

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

— Gabrielle Union

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

— Rashida Jones

The price of a laugh is too high, if it is raised at the expense of another

— Proverb

“Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it’s too crowded.”

— Sol Luckman

I don't like 'comedy,' I like 'life,' which has everything in it.

— Miriam Margolyes

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

— Anonymous

If laughing adds eight years to your life, we're gonna live forever!

— Anonymous

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

— Malcolm De Chazal

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys,…

— LeBron James

Caregivers need humor not only for the healing aspect but also to lift our spirits and inspire us to keep doing what…

— Jim Breuer

An audience can feel when a comedian is confident - and then they will laugh. But if they feel at any point…

— Adrian Lester

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

— Guy Pearce

I like human comedies - or dramedies. More than anything, I'm interested in people just dealing with everyday things that are difficult,…

— Judd Apatow

I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The beauty of stand-up is that it's very flexible, it's very malleable and immediate. Whatever is in your head that day you…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

“Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life…

— Messiah's Handbook Reminders for the Advanced Soul

And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to…

— Quentin Tarantino

Nobody wanted to help me get my start, not to mention it's tough being a female in a man's world of stand-up…

— Anjelah Johnson

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you are a stand-up you can hone your material over successive performances, based on the audience response. Changing a single word…

— Richard Herring

I've never tried fatback. Probably 'cause it's called fatback. I don't know which word creeps me out more: fat or back. Why…

— Jim Gaffigan

“Not enough info makes for a lot of dead cats." "Dead cats?" "You know, 'Curiosity killed the cat.' And I have enough…

— Bryan Davis

So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life -…

— Chuck Palahniuk

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One…

— Diana Vreeland

“There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.”

— Martha Brockenbrough

It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.

— William Shakespeare

I never stole a joke in my life. I just find them before they're lost.

— Milton Berle

They didn't really encourage my goofy, comedic side at Juilliard.

— Gillian Jacobs

“Every human being deserved at least one person to laugh at his jokes, no matter how dry. After”

— Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

— Bob Newhart

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

— Bryan Callen

I knew when I got out of high school that I was going to be a stand-up comic.

— Jo Koy

He who laughs last is the one who is looking at the boobies of the girl who is telling the joke…

— Green Monk

My dishwasher broke this weekend, so I signed up for Match.com to find a new one.

— Justin Briggs

I love people who could make me smile and laugh even though I actually don't want to smile at all.

— Xiang16

You never approach any prof or semi-professional sport as a hit and giggle.

— Ashleigh Barty

Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.

— Julian Barratt

My laugh is silly,cute,a little weird but I think it's normal

— Bani Bowen

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

— Anonymous

I know comedy; I know how to do crazy, off-the-wall stuff that makes me laugh out loud.

— Jonathan Krisel